Cindy Padnos

Cindy Padnos is the founder and Managing Partner of Illuminate Ventures. Padnos focuses primarily in cloud computing sector with a particular emphasis on B2B Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications and platforms, big data/real-time analytics, enterprise social, technology-enabled services and mobile communications investments.

She currently serves as a director of privately held portfolio companies BrightEdge, CalmSea, Hoopla and Xactly Corporation. Prior to founding Illuminate, she was a director of Outlook Ventures, where she sourced more than half of the firm’s new investments including companies in the IT infrastructure, software/SaaS, consumer Internet and mobile application spaces.